Where do we search for happiness?

Why should you listen to the endless insane calls you think are made upon you, when you can know the Voice for God is in you? God commended His Spirit to you, and asks that you commend yours to Him. He wills to keep it in perfect peace, because you are of one mind and spirit with Him.T-5.VII.3:1-3

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The world of the ego is very enticing. It is often all we think we know. But there is another world within called the Kingdom Of God. The Kingdom Of God offers peace and joy instead of guilt, fear, and anger.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search takes us within where truth and meaning abide and not outward which is where guilt, fear, and anger reside. The choice is ours in where we want to conduct our search for truth and meaning.

Today it is suggested that we take a few minutes and look within for the peace and joy which we seek.

Go with the flow and become one with everything.

He has not learned that every mind God created is equally worthy of being healed because God created it whole. You are merely asked to return to God the mind as He created it. He asks you only for what He gave, knowing that this giving will heal you. Sanity is wholeness, and the sanity of your brothers is yours. T-5.VII.2:5-8

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At the separation we divided ourselves from the Kingdom of God and became incarnated in the world of the ego. We were conditioned and socialized by the society we were born into. We forgot from whence we emerged. As our consciousness grows we yearn to return to the Kingdom of God and it requires only that we give up the things of the ego. When we give up the things of the ego we regain our sanity and realize that we and our brothers and sisters are One.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the love of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and to accept one another and encourage each other's spiritual growth.

Today it is suggested that we take a few minutes and get into a flow state where we become one with everything.

Healers, heal thyself.

There have been many healers who did not heal themselves. They have not moved mountains by their faith because their faith was not whole. Some of them have healed the sick at times, but they have not raised the dead. Unless the healer heals himself, he cannot believe that there is no order of difficulty in miracles. T-5.VII.2:1-3

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One cannot give what one does not have. One cannot share what one does not possess. How can a person heal who is not healed? Healing is the undoing of the separation, what the Course calls Atonement. Achieving the awareness of nonduality is a higher stage of development of spiritual intelligence.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote a love for the interdependent web of all existence. This is an advanced stage of awareness which UUs encourage as they facilitate spiritual development.

Today it is suggested that we take a few minutes to meditate to become one with the All, to abide with our Transcendent Source in the Kingdom of God rather than existing in the world of the ego.

Why were we born?

Do you really believe you can make a voice that can drown out God’s? Do you really believe you can devise a thought system that can separate you from Him? Do you really believe you can plan for your safety and joy better than He can? T-5.VII.1.:1-3

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There is a joke, “If you want to hear God laugh, tell God your plans.” We can blank out God, but God is still there. If you don’t like the word “God” substitute the word “Life.” People say, “I don’t believe in God,” but it is rare to hear a person say, “I don’t believe in life.”

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning, and this search takes us eventually back to an awareness of our Transcendent Source without which we would not even have the life to engage in the search.

Today it is suggested that we take a few minutes and reflect on the fact that we have been given life and consider its purpose. Why were we born?

In the Kingdom Of God time is meaningless.

We have repeatedly said that time is a learning device to be abolished when it is no longer useful. The Holy Spirit, Who speaks for God in time, also knows that time is meaningless. T-5.VI.12:5-6

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Time divides and separates in the world of the ego. In the Kingdom of God there is no time. There is only the Holy Instant.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which takes the seeker beyond time to the timeless.

Today, it is suggested that a few minutes be taken to go with the flow where time stands still. There is no experience of time there. Time has become meaningless.

Discerning the lessons of the Holy Spirit.

The ego speaks in judgment, and the Holy Spirit reverses its decision, much as a higher court has the power to reverse a lower court’s decisions in this world. The ego’s decisions are always wrong, because they are based on the error they were made to uphold. Nothing the ego perceives is interpreted correctly. Not only does the ego cite Scripture for its purpose, but it even interprets Scripture as a witness for itself. The Bible is a fearful thing in the ego’s judgment. Perceiving it as frightening, it interprets it fearfully. Being afraid, you do not appeal to the Higher Court because you believe its judgment would also be against you. T-5.VI.4:1-7

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Some of the world’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam are called “the people of the book” because the authority for their doctrines comes from a major text like the Talmud, the Bible, and the Quran. Jesus tells us in A Course In Miracles that these texts are often used by the ego to engender fear  which prevents the adherent from looking within and taking responsibility for their own spiritual life.

In Unitarian Universalism people covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The principle encourages the investigation of multiple religious traditions and practices.

Today it is suggested that the seeker search for wisdom outside their usual circle of familiarity and discern what the Holy Spirit wants them to learn.

We can choose the Mind Of God or the voice of the ego.

Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it with your brothers. How else can the chance to claim it for yourself be given you? The two voices speak for different interpretations of the same thing simultaneously; or almost simultaneously, for the ego always speaks first. Alternate interpretations were unnecessary until the first one was made. T-5.VI.3:3-6

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“Fairness” in the above verses refers to the teaching that the Mind Of God is in every person as it was in Jesus. However, the Mind Of God is often marginalized and superseded by the voice of the ego. When we share the Mind Of God with our brothers and sisters we strengthen the awareness of the Mind of God in ourselves. 

The verses above remind us that the Mind Of God and the voice of the ego give us different interpretations of our perceptions and that the voice of the ego usually supersedes the Mind of God because we make the voice of the ego up while the Mind Of God is always there. To attend to the Mind Of God we can set aside, or overlook the voice of the ego.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which is to be found in the Mind Of God not in the voice of the ego. The search involves learning to tell them apart so we can focus on the Mind Of God rather than on the voice of the ego which we usually hear first.

Today, it is suggested that we practice being mindful by monitoring our awareness for which interpretation of our perceptions we are focusing on: the Mind Of God or the voice of the ego.